Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread Dan Brian
> The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that > we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this > idea? I think that with a clean API, many third-party profilers could and would be created. I am skeptical of the value of putting it in the core,

RE: array/hash manipulation [was :what's with 'with'?]

2001-07-21 Thread jh_lists
"Sterin, Ilya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just one question, how > would merge behave on two different sized arrays. > > @a = (1..5); > @b = (1..10); > merge(@a, @b); > > ##Would return (1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,?? > > Would it stop on the shortest array. Couldn't quite find such explanat

RE: array/hash manipulation [was :what's with 'with'?]

2001-07-21 Thread Sterin, Ilya
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 5:50 AM > To: Sterin, Ilya; 'raptor '; Perl 6 Language > Subject: RE: array/hash manipulation [was :what's with 'with'?] > > > "Sterin, Ilya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just one

RE: array/hash manipulation [was :what's with 'with'?]

2001-07-21 Thread Sterin, Ilya
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 5:50 AM > To: Sterin, Ilya; 'raptor '; Perl 6 Language > Subject: RE: array/hash manipulation [was :what's with 'with'?] > > > "Sterin, Ilya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just one qu

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread schwern
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of > one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not > in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying > bugs that I

pragma adverbs/attributes

2001-07-21 Thread Me
> use strict 'recursive'; If this is not yet done and is deemed a good idea, I'd add that it seems to me to be equally applicable to perl 5. Further, considering the more general [pragma] 'recursive'; I can imagine pragma adverbs / attributes. I searched p5p and p6all for things like "pra

as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread Dave Storrs
First topic: I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying bugs that I'd been trying to track down. It would be nice if ther

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-21 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> Second topic: DS> The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that DS> we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this DS> idea? only if it can be shut off with no penalty. that may